[Iceman]

European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain takes place this weekend. It's a street circuit, with 2 new additions to the grid aswell.

Practice 2 is on now on Setanta Ireland.

Qualifying from 1pm tomorrow.

Race at 1pm on Sunday.

[Iceman]

Renault’s Fernando Alonso was in a feisty mood in Valencia on Friday afternoon. After inadvertently punting off an innocent Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber in the final corner towards the end of the hour and a half session, the Spaniard pushed his own detached front wing into the pit lane.

After repairs he then spun in Turn 17, before banging in the fastest lap of 1m 39.404s to become the only driver to breach the 1m 40s barrier.

Behind him Jenson Button underlined the Brawn GP renaissance with 1m 40.178s, ahead of team mate Rubens Barrichello on 1m 40.209s. They had set the pace in the latter part.

Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima were fourth and fifth for Williams with respective laps of 1m 40.385s and 1m 40.503s, while Adrian Sutil’s good form for Force India continued with sixth fastest time of 1m 40.596s. Team mate Giancarlo Fisichella vaulted up the order to eighth late on, with 1m 40.681s.

They thus sandwiched Robert Kubica who was BMW Sauber’s lead runner with 1m 40.643s. Team mate Heidfeld was left to stew in 17th place on 1m 41.350s as his F1.09 was damaged in its involuntary aviation.

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel improved to ninth at the end with 1m 40.723s, with Heikki Kovalainen leading McLaren’s challenge with 1m 40.738s as Lewis Hamilton was stranded on 1m 43.214s in 20th after his McLaren developed problems after only three laps.

Kimi Raikkonen set the 11th fastest time for Ferrari in 1m 40.739s, chased by Toyota’s Jarno Trulli (1m 40.770s), Renault’s Romain Grosjean (1m 40.787s), Red Bull’s Mark Webber (1m 40.956s) and Toyota’s Timo Glock (1m 40.985s).

Sebastien Buemi was 16th for Toro Rosso with 1m 41.156s, then Heidfeld was followed by Luca Badoer on 1m 42.017s in the second Ferrari and Jaime Alguersuari in the second Toro Rosso on 1m 42.089s.

Besides Alonso, Raikkonen and Webber also had off-track moments.


Source: Formula1.com

[Brad.]

I like F1 but i hardly ever watch it

[Iceman]

Originally posted by Bradley.
I like F1 but i hardly ever watch it

This race is a good one it's only there second time on the track.

Plus with new drivers and the championship so topsy-turvey it would be a good time to watch!! Loads of teams on the comeback....

[Gemmer-x]

yay glad this is back, a whole 4 weeks without F1! I've missed it!

[Johann]

Hamilton in pole position; Should be a good race.

[Iceman]

1. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 653kg
2. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren, 655
3. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 662.5
4. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 654
5. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 661.5
6. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 661.5
7. Nico Rosberg, Williams, 665
8. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 656.5
9. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 664.5
10. Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber, 657.5
11. Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber, 677
12. Adrian Sutil, Force India, 672.5
13. Timo Glock, Toyota, 694.7
14. Romain Grosjean, Renault, 677.7
15. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 688.5
16. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India, 692.5
17. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams, 702
18. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 707.3
19. Jaime Alguersuari, Toro Rosso, 678.5
20. Luca Badoer, Ferrari, 690.5



Provisional Grid for tomorrow's race.

Looks like Button and Kimi in the same time. Glad Hamilton has recovered a bit. Badoer needs a good result if not they may aswell put Hamilton's girlfriend in the car, she'd probably do better....

[James]

Didn't really see the qualifying. 1.5 seconds slower than the second-slowest time for Badoer is not good. I wonder what they will do for the next race.

[King Gizzard]

Anyone other than that bellend Hamilton.

Come on Jensen!!

[ange7]

F1 back! yeeeeeeah
go Webber

[James]

Bad start for Button.

[ange7]

argh missed the start

[ange7]

bugger this Webber will be taken by button.

I'm going back to watching the Ashes :P

[James]

Vettel had to come in for an extra pit-stop. That's messed up his race.

[ange7]

Vettel dnf !!

[James]

Really bad stop for Hamilton. Team weren't ready. That's lost him the race.

[ange7]

lol his dad looked p*ssed.
Hamilton will catch barra.

[James]

Button catching Alonso for sixth. Probably won't get past.

[ange7]

barra is in tears awww
cool

hope he thanks the maclaren pit crew

[James]

Barrichelo wins... looks like he is the main challenger to Button now.

[Iceman]

Great for Barichello, I think he will end up being more consitent than button in the remaining races.......cant wait for next week.


Oh and The Iceman maintains his steady but sure comeback....



Anyone know wher Pinkmichk is???